hinder-end

My first impression was, that the men had got up in a great hurry, and put on their trousers hinder-end foremost.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

The chariot was all of cedar, gilt, and adorned with crystal; save that the fore-end had panels of sapphires, set in borders of gold; and the hinder-end the like of emeralds of the Peru colour.

Paras 30-59 1909

I'll maybe have something for his hinder-end, before we're through with it.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Lawnmarket and turning the West Port like a whirlwind, with all his pennons fluttering; but it was the Westland Levies, with their pikes and their Bibles, that won the day at Dunkeld in the hinder-end.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

I'll maybe have something for his hinder-end, before we're through with it.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

'Ah, there's Puck's little tail wriggling out -- hinder-end foremost -- here he comes -- they are touching their hats to her now, the farmer and all, and she nods just like a little queen!

Friarswood Post Office Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The chariot was all of cedar, gilt and adorned with crystal; save that the fore-end had panels of sapphires, set in borders of gold, and the hinder-end the like of emeralds of the Peru colour.

Ideal Commonwealths Tommaso Campanella 1603

The chariot was all of cedar, gilt, and adorned with crystal; save that the fore-end had panels of sapphires, set in borders of gold; and the hinder-end the like of emeralds of the Peru colour.

New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1593

“Sae be it then,” said Mrs. Dods; “and then the liquor’s no lost — it has been seldom sic claret as that has simmered in a saucepan, let me tell you that, neighbour; — and I mind the day, when, headache or nae headache, ye wad hae been at the hinder-end of that bottle, and maybe anither, if ye could have gotten it wiled out of me.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

The big news this week wasn't that the state Legislature finally got off its collective hinder-end and passed energy legislation, but that a summer's worth of labor has filled my freezer with stewed tomatoes, pasta sauce, and veggies and has created a space crisis right before the quarter-hog from an organic farm outside of Owosso shows up (I tried canning, but the pot my ex-stepmother gave me had a pinhole leak in the bottom ... almost as if it were sabotaged).

MichiganLiberal 2008